c) studying patterns of affixation can help with the deduction of the meaning of new words but there are frequent occasions when a word appears to formed by affixation when in fact the separate parts cannot operate alone: uncouth, disgusting; or the affixation is not transparently something that can be dismantled, e.g. speak > unspeakable, but not speak > speakable.
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